A postdoc/engineer position is available at the CRI Group, NTU, Singapore
(http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/cuong). The prospective staff is expected to
spearhead the development of an inspection robot in collaboration with a
major aircraft manufacturing company. This project has very exciting
commercialization potentials, in which the prospective staff can play
a major role (more details will be given during the interview).

We are looking for applicants with strong programming skills (C++/Python)
and who is an expert in one or both of the following fields:

Our most recent version of the robotics textbook "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control," by Kevin M. Lynch and Frank C. Park, is now available at this link. The first half of this book is based on the lecture notes for the edX course(Part I, Part II). The current pdf version is available online for free and should be considered a "beta" version. A final update will come before the end of November, 2016.

[News] TEAM SNU participates in DRC Finals on June 5-6, 2015

The DRC (DARPA Robotics Challenge) is a competition of robot systems and software teams vying to develop robots capable of assisting humans in responding to natural and man-made disasters. The DRC Finals will take place from June 5-6, 2015 at Fairplex in Pomona, California. The DRC Finals will require robots to attempt a circuit of consecutive physical tasks, with degraded communications between the robots and their operators; the winning team will receive a $2 million prize. Team SNU (Seoul National University) is lead by Professor Jaeheung Park and is composed of three subgroups: Dynamic Robotic Systems Lab (control), Machine Intelligence & Pattern Analysis Lab (perception), and SimLab (software framework). Team SNU uses THORMANG developed by ROBOTIS. DRC website: http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/TEAM SNU teaser: https://youtu.be/MOdqeRvoVDA

The research projects will be from one of the following areas:
1) Robotic grasping and manipulation
2) Machine learning for real robots
3) Robotic and human grasping (at the intersection of robotics and psychology)
The specific project will be selected together with the successful candidate. ... more

Prof. Kyu-Jin Cho received the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Career Award
in Robotics and Automation (Academic) for "Fundamental contributions to soft robotics and
biologically inspired design." Prof. Cho received the award at the recently held 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Automation in Hong Kong.